Even as employees from all around the country are on strike while planning the largest Black Friday boycott in the history of the company, Orlando City officials and local community leaders will break ground to start construction of a 40,000 sq. ft. Wal-Mart Neighborhood grocery store.

‘So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause.’ This is a line from the 2005 movie, “Star Wars, Revenge Of The Sith.” This is the scene where during the Special Session Of Congress, Chancellor Palpatine, Leader of the Galatic Senate was elaborating on a false plot by the Jedi to take over the Senate.

When David Siegel suggested to his employees that they vote for Mitt Romney to save their jobs, he showed a total lack of respect for all 7,000 of them and their families. He is willing to close the company and, might even retire and take their “opportunities” with him to a beach in the Caribbean.

I have written several articles questioning the sanity of putting a Wal-Mart in our Washington Shores neighborhood. I have received lots of positive feedback on Face Book and elsewhere. Some people think that I am in opposition to Wal-Mart.